canal vocal
\ka.nal vɔ.kal\
The verdict
“canal vocal” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Dans le corps humain, partie s'étendant du haut des poumons jusqu'au visage, plus précisément de la glotte jusqu'aux lèvres et aux narines.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | canal vocal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ka.nal vɔ.kal\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “canal vocal” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for canal vocal is 11 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ka.nal vɔ.kal\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Dans le corps humain, partie s'étendant du haut des poumons jusqu'au visage, plus précisément de la glotte jusqu'aux lèvres et aux narines.".
No misspelling variants are generated for canal vocal in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is canal vocal, spelled C-A-N-A-L- -V-O-C-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Dans le corps humain, partie s'étendant du haut des poumons jusqu'au visage, plus précisément de la glotte jusqu'aux lèvres et aux narines.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct French spelling is C-A-N-A-L- -V-O-C-A-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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